International Overview

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You may also find more information on our International wiki portal

Thank you for your interest in the internationalization of the Creative Commons licensing suite.

We would like project teams in as many jurisdictions as possible to join our efforts to increase the sum of raw source material online and to make access to that material cheaper and easier. We are still looking for expert help all around the world. The following overview is designed to help you understand what helping us would entail:


The CC license porting process

Affiliate Institution and Legal and/or Public Project Leads are chosen

Project Leads sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Creative Commons

Internal administration and Timeline

Legal Project Lead produces a first draft

CC reviews first draft

Public discussion

Legal Project Lead produces second draft

CC reviews second draft

Project leads finalize licenses and arrange technical requirements

Launch of the national version of the licenses


Other Projects

CC Legal Day